1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The Italian organized crime is constantly changing, adapting to changing market conditions to maximise its illicit revenues.

The relentless and profound transformations of criminal organizations are also functional to limit the attention of Investigative Structures on their work, while at the same time gathering the maximum possible social consensus in presenting themselves as organisms that dispense services and opportunities for gains.

In a word, social well-being or, at least, the perception of social well-being seen, however, not as a citizen's right, but as an elation by an entity over which it is necessary to correspond if not obedience, certainly condescension.

It follows the physiological attraction for organizations, equipped with strong unlawful liquidity, felt by that part of the entrepreneurial world sometimes in difficulty to assert itself in the complex mechanisms that regulate productive activity and operating costs.

This is therefore the call made by the great monetary availability, which has apparently ease, on the small-medium holders of companies that sometimes do not pose the problem of the possible negative effects on their business.

In this sense, the National Procurator Antimafia Giovanni MELILLO1 describes "...the extraordinary silent force of the expansion of enterprise networks that are progressively attracted by organized crime...".

And then it notes as "...in time a fabric of enterprises has grown that serves the business expansion needs of organized crime and that, in turn, allows to generate profits and expand, but also to generate social consensus and new forms of representation and technical protection and not only technique of the criminal interests below.

Even the leadership of the Mafia cartels is defined on this side because it is quite evident that to assume leadership positions in the great criminal cartels you must be able to occupy positions of control and direction of extensive and branched networks of enterprises".

In addition, with regard to the ability to transform mafias and their propensity to identify and adapt to social changes, the National Procurator specifies that "...

This also involves great transformations of criminal organizations... relations with the market also change the mafia groups.

An organization that aims to enter the field of financial services, insurance, mediation in the labour market, consulting, logistics, commercial distribution, knows that it enters complex systems and must necessarily mitigate the profiles of structural rigidity, the profiles of cultural homogeneity.

It has to choose more flexible models, which are also those most protected by the risks of judicial repression.

At the same time the adoption of these more agile and flexible organizational models that multiply in criminal groups, also multiply the opportunities for illicit enrichment, multiply the collaborative schemes linked to vital needs for a mafia organization to reinvest illicit profits".

Finally, the National Prosecutor concludes in highlighting the consolidated contiguity of the world of organized crime and the world of the enterprise, this report "...can take on the most different forms but only partially, not to say marginally, assume the characters of the scheme according to which the enterprise would be victim of violent intimidating pressures from the organized crime.

More often that relationship takes on different characters, given by the exchange of mutual advantages."

Audition at the Parliamentary Commission of inquiry into the phenomenon of the 21 giugno 2023 mafias.

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Half-yearly report TO PARLIAMENT The fight against the Mafia organizations, therefore, cannot ignore, today more than yesterday, a concrete collaboration between all the institutions concerned, because the mentality underlying the mafia attitude persists in the popular imagination.

It is therefore necessary that the contribution of the world of politics, culture, information and, last but not least, of the world of work, free citizens from the need for "protection" in order to satisfy the primary needs, as well as the fear of having to undergo pressure and intimidation.

In this regard, it appears of particular relevance all the familiar context and the flankers that would make possible the active latincy of the boss Matteo MESSINA DENARO, arrested the 16 gennaio 2023 by the Carabinieri, then deceased during the detention the 25 settembre 2023.

A logistic network extended for example by the driver to the doctor of trust, from the subject of which he had acquired the identity to the sister, arrested in March 2023 and defined in the order precautionary issued to him " faithful executioner of the orders of the latitante", thanks to which the boss was able to exercise the apical functions of Cosa Nostra.

In his name the latter managed the case of the Mafia organization by distributing messages to and from the brother and acting as "... reference point of the reserved chain of transmission of c.d. lace...".

Among the flankers of the latitante are also the daughter and wife of an ergastolano, as well as relatives of an element of summit of the family of Campobello di Mazara today deceased, who would provide the needs of daily life of the boss, putting in place all the necessary measures to prevent it from being identified by the Order Forces.

Still, other subjects prodigated for the withdrawal of health prescriptions and documents from and for the study of the complacent physician or provided, as described in a further precautionary order, to control the "...publish away to verify the eventual presence of the Order Forces or other persons... providing the MESSINA DENARO extended assistance aimed at satisfying your personal needs and maintaining the state of latitude".

More generally, in order to kick out these erect protection networks in favor of mafia bosses, it is necessary, moreover, to emphasize that a particular attention must also be directed to the prison situation, not only from the point of view of the public order and security within the institutions, but also to prevent and limit the ability of organizations to thrive and grow within the walls of penitentiaries.

It refers to the ever more felt need to adopt every caution aimed at preventing the entry of increasingly sophisticated telecommunications material and with increasingly smaller dimensions, which could exceed the ordinary controls of the staff.

The availability of mobile phones would allow prisoners to remain in contact with the outside world and the mafias with their reference organizations, continuing to exercise the command function and devaluing the function of the specific isolation measures.

The phenomenon is confirmed, for example, by the discovery in the Carcere of Melfi (PZ), in March 2023 following controls carried out by the Penitentiary Police, of some mobile phones equipped with cables and chargers, as well as 400 grams of hashish.

Explaining, then, the evasion of a prominent element of the garganic mafia belonging to a Vieste clan (FG), which took place the 24 febbraio 2023 from the prison of Badu and Carros (NU) where it was held under "high security".

With reference to the trend of delittuosity in the first half of 2023, compared with the same period of the previous year, there are below some explanatory graphs aimed at framing the phenomenon of the mafia threat in the broader framework of general criminal events.

1. General considerations 1st GROUP The 1st group of istograms refers, among others, to the crimes connected to the mafia-type criminal association and to the criminals, as well as to the crimes committed with the circumstances referred to in the art. 416 bis c.p., resulting in a slight increase in only north Italy.

In the national territory there is a certain tendency to the downfall of some cases examined, except for the "mafia-type criminal association" and the "mafia murder" whose increase is concentrated in the south.

Also regarding the "association, production and traffic of narcotics" the increase, however light, concerns southern Italy.

It should be remembered that the latter particular case refers to even non-mafia environments and, in particular, to that multitude of criminal aggregates, even unorganized, constituted by sometimes occasional groups or whose mafiosity is not yet established.

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Half-yearly report TO PARLIAMENT 2nd GROUP This type of crimes that, more frequently, express the typical entrepreneurial action of the mafias and their penetration in the economic and financial fabric, appears in general decrease, while observing that for the case "fraud in public supplies" and "trading in influence" the data shows a certain increase mostly spread throughout the Italian territory.

If the crime of money laundering decreases in the national data, this decrease is less appreciated in central Italy.

The data, however, should not lead to easy optimisms, since this is a matter of priority to the outcome of complex and wide-ranging investigative activities, often conducted in time periods that broadly cross the semester and which also provide a non-quantifiable number of unseen or detectable conducts.

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Half-yearly report TO PARLIAMENT 3rd GROUP With reference to the symptomatic cases of crime related to the most common methods of collection of liquidity by criminal organizations, illustrated in the following third group of graphs, alongside a general decrease in "damaging" and "extortion", increases, except in the south, the number of "rapines" and "personal seizure for extortionive purpose".

In light increase also, throughout the national territory and to confirmation of the significant availability of monetary revenues, the crime of "reception". The trend towards a slow but progressive reduction in data relating to the cd is also confirmed for the semester under review.

"traffic of narcotics" in the central-southern regions, however, the figure should not lead to optimistic forecasts because the sector investigations, even the most recent, show the persistent interest of the mafia organizations for this extremely profitable area.

The same optimism must not permeate also the examination of the general decrease of the "usury", in view of the difficulty of bringing out this crime.

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General considerations It emerges clearly, from the data above illustrated and from the results of police investigations, the persistence and complexity of the mafia organizations that, from the Regions of origin, have now been rooted and spread in the national territory and abroad, that is, wherever there is the possibility to pursue its illicit affairs, to enter into the legal circuits of the economy and, however, to draw fast and huge profits polluting the economic-financial circuits.

In fact, the priority objective of mafias is to assume economic power, with the aim of prevailing on others by acquiring control of civil and political life.

In many cases it has now been ascertained how some professionals seek the shortcut offered by mafia protection, with the expectation of getting alleged advantages and the illusion of being able to remain outside the illegality.

The fundamental and essential aspect is the correct information in the effective fight against mafia, whose key to the development of civic sense remains.

In this regard, in order to promote the growth of civil consciousness in the population, important initiatives have been launched in the semester in reference that see the involvement of local administrations and citizenship in the implementation of the level of security of the territories, also through the requalification of urban centers.

In particular, in Foggia the 6 febbraio 2023, has been undersigned by the Prefect and the extraordinary Commissioner for the provisional management of the Commune, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo PIANTEDOSI, a protocol that aims, for the next two years, to promote and implement a participatory and integrated security system in the territory according to four directors: prevention of the phenomena of widespread crime and predatory, measures for the legal implementation of urban security,

Another protocol was signed in Palermo the 7 giugno 2023 between the Attorney General at the Court of Justice Appeal, the Prosecutor of the Republic and the Prosecutor for Minors, for the protection of minors, children of investigated for serious crimes (including the crimes of mafia association).

The agreement aims to implement in particular the information exchange in order to prevent young people from being subjected by families to deterrent educational models which would condition their development.

In tema di contrasto delle condotte lesive degli interessi economici e finanziari pubblici si evidenzia come l'attuazione del pacchetto di investimenti noto come Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza abbia comportato l'adozione del Decreto del Ministero dell'Interno, in data 2 ottobre 2023, finalizzato a rafforzare i presidi volti a prevenire le infiltrazioni criminali nell'economia, con "...misure di potenziamento dell'azione istruttoria dei Gruppi Interforze Antimafia (GIA) istituti presso le Prefetture..." e chiamati a collaborare con i Prefetti per la realizzazione di una effettiva ed efficace attività dell'apparato amministrativo di prevenzione antimafia.

The Ministerial Decree aims to make the prevention action more efficient Antimafia, without harming the necessary security in the implementation of the interventions provided by the PNRR and the National Plan of complementary investments, recognizing and enhancing the role of the GIA mentioned.

Given the importance of the context, the Director of the DIA has promoted the adoption of specific organizational measures to ensure the qualified representation of the components of the DIA that will intervene in the Prefectious Interforze Groups.

This is also in view of the tighter programming of the work of the Groups, which will have to meet with a minimum of 15 or monthly, in order to ensure the accurate and timely competition to the work in the face of the relevant objectives set by the PNRR.

It should be recalled that this Direction fulfils the functions of the Central Observatory public procurement, which is responsible for carrying out monitoring activities for the prevention and repression of attempts at mafia infiltration with regard to strategic public works, combining "centralized" supervisory requirements with targeted intervention on the territory, as well as ensuring

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Half-yearly report A "virtuous circle" between territorial bodies and central structures, through the collection and analysis of data acquired by Prefectures – also through the appropriate information system for access to the yards (S.I.R.A.C.) and the communications provided under art.

91, paragraph 7-bis, letter e), of the Code of laws Antimafia – and the duly integrated conveyance of the information necessary to operate any interventions of an interprovincial nature and of information-investigative input to the competent Authorities.

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